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Racial/ethnic disparities in breast and gynecologic cancer treatment and outcomesC Martin Tammemagi
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol 19:31-6. 2007..To review recent research in racial/ethnic disparities in breast and gynecologic cancers, focusing on disparities occurring postdiagnosis...
Smoking and lung cancer survival: the role of comorbidity and treatmentC Martin Tammemagi
Josephine Ford Cancer Center, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
Chest 125:27-37. 2004..The aim of this study was to determine whether smoking independently predicts survival in patients with lung cancer or whether an existent effect is mediated through comorbidity and/or treatment...
In lung cancer patients, age, race-ethnicity, gender and smoking predict adverse comorbidity, which in turn predicts treatment and survivalC Martin Tammemagi
Josephine Ford Cancer Center, 1 Ford Place, 5C, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:597-609. 2004..STUDY AND DESIGN SETTING: Data for 1,155 patients were abstracted from the Josephine Ford Cancer Center Tumor Registry and medical records. Associations were analyzed by linear, logistic, and Cox regression...
Impact of comorbidity on lung cancer survivalC Martin Tammemagi
Josephine Ford Cancer Center, Detroit, MI 48202 3450, USA
Int J Cancer 103:792-802. 2003..Comorbidity count and the Charlson index failed to capture much information. Clinical practice and trials need to consider the effect of comorbidity in lung cancer patients...
Lung carcinoma symptoms--an independent predictor of survival and an important mediator of African-American disparity in survivalC Martin Tammemagi
Josephine Ford Cancer Center, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202 3450, USA
Cancer 101:1655-63. 2004..This study evaluates the associations between symptoms and stage, the independent impact of symptoms on survival, predictors of symptoms, and the extent to which symptoms mediate survival disparities...
Comorbidity and survival disparities among black and white patients with breast cancerC Martin Tammemagi
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 294:1765-72. 2005..Reasons for the shorter survival of black breast cancer patients compared with their white counterparts are not completely understood...
Factors associated with human small aggressive non small cell lung cancerC Martin Tammemagi
Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2082-9. 2007..Such small aggressive NSCLCs (SA-NSCLC) are no longer resectable with curative intent, carry a grave prognosis, and may involve unique biological pathways. This is a study of factors associated with SA-NSCLC...
